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• Sometimes we suspect that Dr. Linus Pauling—who has launched yet another campaign to stop the testing of nuclear weapons—does not read national review.

• Mr. Drew Middleton reports in the New York Times that what the Conservative Party of Great Britain needs is a little less conservatism, because it is a fact that “the Center of politics in Britain is on its left.” What about the disaffected Right, who have, by their widespread abstentions, cost the Conservative Party so dearly in recent by-elections? They’ll be back at general election-time, Mr. Middleton says. Turning the Party leftward “involves a calculated risk of losing Right-wing votes. But the Right wing of the Conservative Party in Britain has nowhere to go. No matter how radical it may appear in mid-term, it invariably returns to the fold in a general election.” Question: How to be left of the Conservative Party of Great Britain and still be right of the Labor Party?

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• Sometimes we suspect that Dr. Linus Pauling—who has launched yet another campaign to stop the testing of nuclear weapons—does not read national review.

• Mr. Drew Middleton reports in the New York Times that what the Conservative Party of Great Britain needs is a little less conservatism, because it is a fact that “the Center of politics in Britain is on its left.” What about the disaffected Right, who have, by their widespread abstentions, cost the Conservative Party so dearly in recent by-elections? They’ll be back at general election-time, Mr. Middleton says. Turning the Party leftward “involves a calculated risk of losing Right-wing votes. But the Right wing of the Conservative Party in Britain has nowhere to go. No matter how radical it may appear in mid-term, it invariably returns to the fold in a general election.” Question: How to be left of the Conservative Party of Great Britain and still be right of the Labor Party?